Hard Day

I woke up to get ready for the gym to bang out an awesome cardio workout. I was hungry already so I ate a little something before hand. It was a very weird day. I felt famished all day. I couldn't quite figure out why but by 7:30am, I had already consumed 3 meals and almost 500 calories. I had an amazing workout and burned over 500 calories doing alternations of sprints/running and incline training. I just couldn't figure out why I was so hungry! I made some poor choices and ended up turning to a high carb processed granola bar and some saltine cracker by the time 2:00pm rolled around. I just couldn't understand why I was so hungry and my cravings to eat were so out of control.
 I came home and had another cardio session, burning an additional 400 calories and then took a step back to redo my meal plan. For whatever reason,  I needed to find a way to eat more often, but keep my calories and carbs in check. I came up with a WINNING meal plan and will share it with you tomorrow every step of the way. YOU are my motivation tomorrow. YOU, the person who is reading this who I have no idea of that will motivate me to reach into myself and pull out a stronger version that can resist the things she already knows have no benefit. All that to say, I am freaking out that I had a non-perfect day this close to the competition. I PROMISE to do better. I hate being reminded of my humaness.
I found this veggie chart and found it pretty amazing. I want to print a color picture to hang on my fridge. It breaks up the calorie/protein/carb content of all vegetables.

I was so inspired, I plan on buying some cauliflower tomorrow on my way home to make cauliflower "mashed potatoes" to try this week.

To become re-inspired, if you will, I researched my favorite tide and true IFBB bikini pros. I looked at pictures, their competition history etc.

I was indeed inspired as always but also realized that everyone has a starting point. You do not enter your first competition with the most perfect physique and have no room for improvement. The women I admire the most have been competing for years and some even trained for years before that. I have been working on this for nearly 9 weeks now. Granted, it has taken everything in my heart and soul and completely transformed my life, I believe forever, but I have to remind myself that this is the beginning. This is my starting point. Hopefully someone some day will find this blog and look at how far I have come and be inspired to keep trying, keep learning, keep improving and never stop desiring to  become the BEST version of yourself.

ISNT THAT THE TRUTH!

to BETTER days. 

- Whittney C.